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Prudence Before Presence. But not all the Arab states had yet agreed to the League. Saudi Arabia and Yemen had not come in. Saudi Arabia's far-sighted Ibn Saud and Yemen's prudent Iman Yahya had sent no delegates to Alexandria, only "observers"-two elderly sheiks taking a seaside cure. They had not signed...
...Unconsidered Judgment is principally composed of a series of biographical articles which appeared originally as LIFE closeups. Their subjects include Field Marshal Jan Smuts, a South African witch doctor named John Chavafoimbira, Anthony Eden, an Irish publican named Jack Nugent and Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud...
Noel Busch was the first non-Moslem journalist in a century to visit Riad, Saudi Arabia's capital, and Ibn Saud was a journalist's dream assignment: one of the most colorful and least-written-about of the world's rulers. But in his second book, What Manner of Man?, Author Busch set himself the task of discussing the world's most-written-about head of state. He approached the subject of Franklin D. Roosevelt with precisely the same mixture of curiosity, detachment and aplomb that he took to Riad. The result is, with the possible...
Welcome. In the King's richly decked tent the Generals got a royal welcome. Ibn Saud liked the Lend-Lease pretties, gave a little Lend-Lease-in-Reverse: to each visitor an Arab costume, headgear and all; to the Generals, jewel-studded swords; to their aides, watches and daggers. The monarch, according to old Arab custom, pressed his guests to stay at least three days. But the Generals were not on vacation. Two hours after their arrival they said farewell, climbed aboard their modern magic carpet, turned Cairoward...
...hundred miles west of Hafar-el-Ats, the U.S. presented Ibn Saud's Arabia with another, even more persuasive Lend-Lease cargo. At sweaty, sultry Jidda on the Red Sea, where legend has buried Eve and the main road runs to Mecca, an American freighter unloaded 7,000,000 silver coins (riyals), minted in Philadelphia and valued...